The Curse of Cain: A Werewolf Urban Fantasy (The Vilokan Asylum of the Magically and Mentally Deranged) by Theophilus Monroe

Author:Theophilus Monroe [Monroe, Theophilus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-02-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Our priority was to survive the night. Once we did, we could try to track down the Baron and Annabelle could do whatever voodoo she needed to turn him green. We had to rally as many forces as we could. So far as we knew, the only weapon that Baron Samedi had claimed was Mel. We couldn’t rule out the possibility that he’d found and claimed more younglings or that he’d used Mel to turn others.

One vampire who lived with Mercy at Casa do Diabo, Sarah, had gained over the years a vampiric gift that allowed her to track and communicate with other vampires. She was, perhaps, the only vampire in New Orleans who was older than Mercy. In fact, Sarah was there in Exter, Rhode Island, when Mercy was turned. She didn’t do it herself. But she saw it when Mercy rose from her grave. After her family thought she’d died. Most older vampires had a few unique abilities. When they fed, drawing on the power latent in human souls, different powers sometimes manifested. Mercy could compel people—-a power she refused to use most of the time. Some vampires could shift into bats. Others could turn invisible.

According to our plan, Mercy was going to use Sarah’s gift to track any vampire younglings in the city. She and a few other vampires would do what they could to prevent the Baron from claiming more younglings. More than that, though, if Sarah could track Mel, we could focus our efforts wherever she was located and hopefully prevent her from biting anyone else.

Annabelle planned to find Ogoun, the Loa of War, so they could also fend off the Baron. Ogoun couldn’t bind the Baron or send him back to Guinee, but he could keep him distracted. If the Baron had to fight the Loa of War, well, that meant he couldn’t terrorize the city.

Then, my plan was to rally the pack. Vampires are averse to werewolf bites. Julie could evoke the flambeau and force us to shift. She’d shift with us since she was one of us now. The problem was that we couldn’t enter the city as wolves. We could chase any vampire younglings that Sarah identified within the city away.

There was one challenge to all of this. We had to communicate, and I didn’t use a smartphone. Annabelle and Mercy could text back and forth. Mercy probably wouldn’t text herself. Instead, she’d rely on Hailey, another young vampire, who was much more technologically savvy than Mercy, to handle her communications.

Ryan could handle the communications for the pack. We couldn’t text back and forth. Wolf paws aren’t great on touch screens. But Ryan could carry his phone with him and show me the messages.

That was the plan Annabelle, Mercy, and I cooked up on the fly. They garnished the plan with a few f-bombs and “screw you, Annabelles” coming from Mercy, but all in all, I was pleased we managed to come up with a viable strategy.

Since it was already after dark, we had little time to waste.

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